Thursday, July 14, 2016

Rachel Madcow And Her “Hitler” Fetish

One site has decided
to take pot shots at a writer for The
Hill who opined about MSNBC’s Rachel Madcow and in so doing failed to
pillory another writer at Politico who reported on the same topic.

At the heart of the
matter is the revelation Rachel Madcow is “studying Adolph Hitler’s rise to
power as a way to help her contextualize Donald Trump’s presidency.”

"Over the past
year, I've been reading a lot about what it was like when Hitler first became
chancellor," she said in a Rolling Stone magazine interview published this week.

"I am
gravitating toward moments in history for subliminal reference in terms of
cultures that have unexpectedly veered into dark places, because I think that's
possibly where we are," she added.

Madcow’s “Lean
Forward” network had been scraping the bottom of the ratings barrel for years
while she was MSNBC’s lone beacon of hope. Her show now garners the largest
25-54 audience of any of the programs on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. She came within 500,000 total viewers of
beating Fox News in her 9 PM time slot.

Madcow wants to “contextualize”
Trump’s presidency? How arrogant must
this woman lesbian be to draw a parallel to 1933 and the presumptive GOP
nominee?

Why must the Left
always characterize anyone whose politics differ from theirs as being Nazis or
compare them to Hitler?

There can be no
comparison. The attempt to annihilate an entire people is beyond such facile
analogies and any attempt to do so sadly trivializes the act of genocide.

Godwin's Law is right: the debate stops once Nazi parallels are
invoked.

Attempting to raise
one's profile, as Madcow most assuredly is doing, by invoking the name of Adolf
Hitler may work in the short term, but in the long run, it will be seen for
what it really is: a dismal attempt at
self-promotion.

Trivializing Hitler
and the Nazi regime is not only supremely dangerous and foolish, it is also
insensitive and a slap in the face to all who suffered under that regime. Falling back on Hitler and the Nazis only
tells me Madcow lacks imagination and sensitivity. Just ask Jeff
Dunetz

Last March Conan had Sarah Silverman appear on
his TV show donning a Hitler costume to explain “his” distaste at being
compared to Trump. The skit was
demonstrably unfunny proving how sick our betters on the Left really are.

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